John Waters has never wanted to be a gay filmmaker. He has always wanted to be John Waters, a singular filmmaking talent who has defined artistic sensibilities for straight and gay people alike for the last 60 years. For Waters, being gay is just one of a multitudinous things that fill out the suit he's chosen for this occasion. "They never say the great heterosexual, " he says,…

A regular at work asked me the other day if I thought pride had a weird vibe this year. I didn’t disagree, necessarily, but I asked if he meant pride, overall, or Pride™, the one with cops and corporate floats (but not as many anymore, given, you know, the impending fall of civilization). Both, he said, but especially the event, which had just removed Kathy Hilton as its Grand Marshal…